2025: Living in a Dream World | Time Capsule Film
What is real? How do you define “real”? Because for anyone paying even a slight modicum of attention, 2025 didn’t come anywhere close. More like 2025 got fired and replaced by AI.
In a world where we can’t seem to remember what we had for breakfast two days ago anywhere, where we’re drowning in a neverending sea of information that has now been flooded with a new type of ersatz on top of what was already so unbelievable and so unreal, I thought perhaps we could benefit from a documentarian’s eye on just what happened last year. The idea was to look at the disintegration of our already corrupt society in its present form but concurrently with the rise of the tech based upon when each clip or story was first posted. I bookmarked stuff throughout the year and took as much care as possible to try and look up each clip (even the TikToks) so the dates were correct by month for this (although I did rearrange them puzzle-like within the month so the connections would hopefully be more apparent).
I probably don’t have to tell you we just lived through a hell of a year. Truly, all the veils are down now. As Morpheus famously asked Neo in one of my favorite films of all time, ever: “What is real? How do you define ‘real’?” The veils are all the way down now.
Just a couple days ago, Elon Musk said “We have entered the Singularity”. I believe the film I just made illustrates that he is 100% correct. The singularity is a theoretical point where current models of human understanding break down leading to radical transformation… but, in alchemical terms, no renewal can happen without going through that stage (as ugly and painful as it is).
